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What do you think?

Does Albumo have a chance of "taking off" ?

Mark

My honest opinion: No, I don't think so. I've had one sale in four months, and have stopped uploading.

I like the site, but I'm unsure about their review procedure. It seems to have taken a complete, and I mean complete, turnaround. First 317 photos were accepted 100%. Much higher than I expected, but I'll live with it. Since then, I've had 8 accepted out 170. Three batches of a total of 143 photos were rejected in a span of just 6 minutes. In fact, each batch has been either completely accepted or completely rejected. That tells me their reviewers do not inspect each photo.

I am pretty new to stock and may not have been able to afford the best equipment, but when my acceptance ratio at fotolia is over 50% and over 40% at DT for the same shots that have less than a 5% acceptance at Albumo, it makes me ask questions. I sent an email to albumo stating my concerns and received a reply that they would look into it and get back to me. 2 weeks later, nothing more has been heard.

I also think their help page is a little hard to find and not organized particularly well (but they aren't the only site on the web with this problem).

MHO is this: They need to decide what they want to be or they will frustrate a lot of potential contributors.

I uploaded there when they had their 100 club open and collected my bonus. I did one more update in December sometime and so far a total of 2 sales.

I won't be uploading any more there unless I start to see some regular sales.

They promised marketing would start when they reached 200K images and I think they're well beyond that, but AFAIK nothing's going on. One contributor newsletter and nothing else since.

I took their bonus, but only 3 or 4 sales. Quit uploading at end of the year.

What is their 400 day clause?

If you forego the bonus you can delete one image per day.